Crazy Stupid Love secures Cheryl a place in Official Chart history books

While Crazy Stupid Love marks newly-wed Cheryl’s ninth Number 1 in total (including four chart toppers with Girls Aloud and her appearance on the 2010 charity cover of R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts for Helping Haiti), the track is the singer’s fourth solo Number 1 placing her alongside Geri Halliwell and Rita Ora as only the third British female in history to claim the feat!

Cheryl previously topped the chart with Fight For This Love (2009), Promise This (2010) and Call My Name (2012).

An ecstatic Cheryl tells OfficialCharts.com,"It feels great to be back but even more special to have achieved my fourth Number 1. So exciting!"

"It is apt that, just a few weeks before Cheryl returns to The X Factor competition, she is again demonstrating what a winner she is" adds Official Chart Company Chief Executive, Martin Talbot.

Crazy Stupid Love, which topples Rixton’s Me And My Broken Heart (Number 8 today) from the Official Chart summit after just one week, also claims rapper Tinie Tempah his fifth appearance on a Number 1, notching up a combined chart sales figure of 118,000 this week, with audio streams contributing just over 3%.

Canadian newcomers Magic! are at Number 2 today with their reggae-infused debut Rude. The track made its Official Singles Chart debut at Number 76 three weeks ago based on streams alone, before climbing to Number 50 last week. Rude has also had a worldwide chart impact, entering the Top 10 in the group’s native Canada as well as, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden and USA, where it currently tops the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Climbing one place to Number 3 today is former X Factor contestant Ella Henderson’s Ghost, which spends its seventh week in the Top 5. George Ezra’s Budapest is also up one place to 4, while Ariana Grande’s Problem FT Iggy Azalea slides three places to 5.

With over 1.2 millions plays Ariana Grande’s Problem FT Iggy Azalea is the most streamed track of the week. Four other tracks have also been streamed over a million times; Magic!’s Rude (1.17m), George Ezra’s Budapest (1.13m), Ed Sheeran’s Sing (1.08m) and Ella Henderson’s Ghost (1.06m).

New Entries

In addition to Cheryl Cole’s Crazy Stupid Love FT Tinie Tempah (Number 1) and Magic!’s Rude (Number 2) there are six new entries in today’s Official Singles Chart Top 40.

Singer/songwriter Charli XCX’s Boom Clap, which features on the soundtrack to The Fault In Our Stars is at Number 6, while US house producer Marc Kinchen’s early '90s anthem Always FT Alana (Number 12) makes its Top 20 debut today thanks to a remix by Route 94.

British girlband Neon Jungle score their fourth Top 20 with Louder (14), as X Ambassadors and Jamie N Commons’ Jungle enters the chart at Number 18.

The Official Singles Chart Top 10 is as follows. Click here to see the Official Singles Chart Top 100 in full after 7pm.

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